A Study on the Manufacturing of Large Size Hollow Shape Parts for Prototype-Car using Rapid Prototyping Technology and Vacuum Molding

쾌속조형 기술과 진공성형법을 이용한 시작차량용 대형 중공 부품의 제작에 관한 연구

Rapid Prototyping(RP) techniques have revolutionized traditional manufacturing methods. These techniques allow the user to fabricate a part directly from a conceptual model before investing in production tooling and help develop new models with significant short time. This paper suggests to new process to manufacture large size hollow shape parts for prototype-car using Rapid Prototyping technology and Vacuum Molding with the reduction of delivery time. In addition, This paper introduces the dividing and combining method to make large size RP master model in spite of the limit of the build chamber dimensions of commercialized RP system and post-processing method to achieve sufficient surface quality.